Mark McElroy
@markmcelroy.bsky.social
Note maker (Capacities, Obsidian). Author of a dozen trad and #indie books, including Parallel Lines (a gay sci-fi romcom). Lots more at markmcelroy.com.
Love, love, love The Sparrow.
September 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Love, love, love The Sparrow.
Mississippi's sweeping age verification law demands all users of social media, adults and minors, verify themselves. BlueSky has (rightly) refused to build out infrastructure to support this invasion of privacy, and now blocks all Mississippi users by default.
September 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mississippi's sweeping age verification law demands all users of social media, adults and minors, verify themselves. BlueSky has (rightly) refused to build out infrastructure to support this invasion of privacy, and now blocks all Mississippi users by default.
Living in #Mississippi and now having to use a VPN to access #BlueSky because of this state's obsessive refusal to let adults be adults.
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Living in #Mississippi and now having to use a VPN to access #BlueSky because of this state's obsessive refusal to let adults be adults.
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
Reposted by Mark McElroy
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Midjourney’s ability to let me imagine and animate anything is absolutely, totally bonkers.
I made this demo reel in less than an hour, using art projects from the past few months.
youtu.be/O1570AQ-WX8?...
I made this demo reel in less than an hour, using art projects from the past few months.
youtu.be/O1570AQ-WX8?...
Demo Reel - One Hour with Midjourney Video Generation
YouTube video by Mark McElroy
youtu.be
June 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Midjourney’s ability to let me imagine and animate anything is absolutely, totally bonkers.
I made this demo reel in less than an hour, using art projects from the past few months.
youtu.be/O1570AQ-WX8?...
I made this demo reel in less than an hour, using art projects from the past few months.
youtu.be/O1570AQ-WX8?...
I miss presidential Presidents.
June 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I miss presidential Presidents.
#FountainOfYouth (#AppleTV) should have been titled “Indiana Jones and The Movie Doppelgänger Lacking Any of the Heart, Empathy, or Engagement that Made Raiders a Great Franchise.”
June 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#FountainOfYouth (#AppleTV) should have been titled “Indiana Jones and The Movie Doppelgänger Lacking Any of the Heart, Empathy, or Engagement that Made Raiders a Great Franchise.”
Wow, Medium seems to have become little more than a host for thousands of AI-generated articles that all sound just alike.
June 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Wow, Medium seems to have become little more than a host for thousands of AI-generated articles that all sound just alike.
Season 2, Episode 8 - Who Are You - of #Andor is near-perfect television. The machinery of that story, grinding relentlessly forward, the chanting, the soundtrack moaning like a dark thing in labor … OMG. I can’t even. I’m wrecked.
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Season 2, Episode 8 - Who Are You - of #Andor is near-perfect television. The machinery of that story, grinding relentlessly forward, the chanting, the soundtrack moaning like a dark thing in labor … OMG. I can’t even. I’m wrecked.
So proud of the little church I attend in Mississippi, that welcomed folks to rainbow cakes and donuts this past Sunday.
June 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
So proud of the little church I attend in Mississippi, that welcomed folks to rainbow cakes and donuts this past Sunday.
Thanks! Ah, the Oasis. I'd be reading on one right now if they would release a new version. I love the page-turn buttons!
June 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thanks! Ah, the Oasis. I'd be reading on one right now if they would release a new version. I love the page-turn buttons!
Here’s the thing about spotlight-loving, big idea, ketamine-fueled change-makers:
They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.
They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.
June 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here’s the thing about spotlight-loving, big idea, ketamine-fueled change-makers:
They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.
They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.
My Failed Effort to Abandon the Kindle
Happy Years in the Walled Garden
medium.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Every YouTube tech review ever, in eight seconds. (Actually, the first high-quality video clip with sound I've used Veo to generate. I made this in less than one minute with five lines of text. This is insane.
May 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Every YouTube tech review ever, in eight seconds. (Actually, the first high-quality video clip with sound I've used Veo to generate. I made this in less than one minute with five lines of text. This is insane.
Kinda charming how, in Nemesis Games, Holden wants to solve a data mining problem by hiring programmers instead of using his century’s ChatGPT. #TheExpanse
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kinda charming how, in Nemesis Games, Holden wants to solve a data mining problem by hiring programmers instead of using his century’s ChatGPT. #TheExpanse
There’s a great dissertation waiting to be written on how Methodist ministers are represented in science fiction.
May 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
There’s a great dissertation waiting to be written on how Methodist ministers are represented in science fiction.
I wish my #Kindle #ColorSoft looked this vibrant all the time — and not just when I place it directly under a halogen lamp.
May 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I wish my #Kindle #ColorSoft looked this vibrant all the time — and not just when I place it directly under a halogen lamp.
A great addition to the New Albany food scene.
April 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A great addition to the New Albany food scene.
April 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM